X-Files 3?!?!

I'm sure if you know me (or if you've at least read this blog), you know I'm a HUGE X-Files fan. I started watching the show as a child and grew up watching it on Fox and FX respectively. I saw the first film in theaters and thought it was fantastic. Then, word of the 2nd film came out and I realized that I needed to watch the entire show over again from start to finish. It took my boyfriend and I about 7 or 8 months to get the job done, but we saw every single episode, plus the DVD extras. The first 8 seasons were phenomenal. Season 8's season finale was where I felt the show should have ended, but the nerd in me didn't care that the next season might suck and I kept going with it just for kicks. Season 9, well... had its pros and cons. Obviously the main con being very little Duchovney (though Agents Doggett and Reyes actually grew on me a whole lot and I even think a spin-off might have worked.) And then there was the series finale. What a waste.

Once us 'Philes found out about The X-Files: I Want To Believe, I think everyone was hoping for the closure we'd been waiting around for years to get. What ever happened to Doggett and Reyes? Does Scully ever get her kid back? Do the super soldiers finally disappear? What ever happened to all the aliens?! What about the black oil?!?! AHHH!!!!!

Seriously... too many questions. So Tony and I went for an early morning showing of IWTB and left completely disheartened. Sure, they gave us cute little quirks to remember (ie. Mulder being bored throwing pencils in to the ceiling) and we finally got some Mulder/Scully relationshipness (though it was too weird for me to see them cuddling THAT much), but where was the story? What was the point?

And therein lies the rub. After IWTB, I doubt many people were feeling another movie (because by this point you might feel it could only get worse.) However, some of us STILL want to believe, and have been holding our breath for a third and final XF movie that will make us as happy as we were after watching Jose Chung's From Outer Space and Bad Blood. Well, it seems that Gillian Anderson has made mention that there might possibly be a third film well on its way to being released in 2012!

*Jaw Drop!*

The Park Bench recently posted a list of things they feel need to happen for a new XF movie to be released. While I agree with most of it, I personally feel that we NEED the mythology to come rushing back in. To hell with the main stream audiences! Let them sit for 9 seasons and hundreds of hours before they pay to see a film. Seriously. Chris Carter needs to get the the teams of people who worked on his best episodes and get them all to create the best script ever made. And then we need resolution. We want Mulder and Scully to find William again, or at least know that he's okay. We want to figure out what happened to the Black Oil. Maybe some flashbacks with Cancer Man. Or make a big chart showing us just how many different kinds of aliens there really were. Give Scully and Mulder back their badges and their huge flashlights. Bring back the kind of creepy-weird shit that made Home such an amazing episode. Hell... Just make it GOOD again!

And, you know, maybe give Alex Trebek a cameo while you're all it. Cause you know we'll all dig it.

More news on this as it unfolds...

Happy Birthday, Gillian!

A little late in the day, but it's Gillian Anderson's birthday today! Miss Dana Scully herself turns a vivacious 41 today (or a few hours ago, anyhow.) From her short-lived but still fantastic performance in The Last King of Scotland to lending her voice talents as Moro in Princess Mononoke to making the world fall in love with Scully! on the X-Files, Gillian's presence is a force to be reckoned with. She is also a great philanthropist off the camera, giving money and time, as well as raising awareness for causes/organizations like neurofibromitosis, Action for South Africa, the Trevor Project, and she's even a spokesperson for The Feminist Majority Foundation. How rad is that?!

Happy Birthday, you beautiful woman!

X-Files Nerdery

Someone posted this on the Livejournal X-Files community and I figured i'd share it because few things are cooler than two unknowns in pajama pants playing an acoustic rendition of the X-Files theme song. Without further ado:

Vampire Fetish: Take A Bite.

So just like most True Blood fans, I am eagerly (impatiently) anticipating next week's latest installment of this dirty south vampire novella. However, I can't help but notice how huge the vampire market is these days. Now, I haven't seen Twilight, nor have I read anything by Stephanie Meyer (funny, too, since I went to high school with a girl by the same name - but no, it's not her), so I can't really give an honest opinion about either. Part of me wants to say it's probably crap. It looks very... fantasy-ridden and the actors/actresses all look relatively young and unappealing to me. Maybe if this had been going on when I was still in high school, it would be more relatable. Still, I have several friends who have jumped on the Twilight bandwagon and claim it is amazing. I may watch it online someday... for free.. when i'm done watching everything else that needs to be watched.

But anyway! Back to the point. Vampires are hot right now! There hasn't been this much hubub about the beautiful undead since perhaps Interview with the Vampire showed two of the hottest male actors at the time (Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt... and actually, Antonio Banderas was big at the time as well) in all kinds of homo-erotic situations.

I saw the film back when it first came out in 1994 when it first came out (I was about 10 at the time), but it wasn't until about 3 years later that I became immersed in the world of Anne Rice and her seductive yet practically asexual vampires. And once I read Interview (and later, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, Pandora, Tale of the Body Thief, etc.), I quickly realized what crap the Cruise-Pitt flick was. And let me not get started on Queen of the Damned... which had all the potential in the world and had to turn out to be one of the biggest film let-downs of my relatively short life.

Vampires have existed in legend and folklore for centuries, and have become popular in pop culture ever since F.W. Murnau put Nosferatu on the big screen. I finally got around to watching that recently (or re-watching... saw it on Halloween night at some theater in Boston a few years back) and thought it was pretty great, albeit a bit slow. I haven't gotten around to Bela Lugosi's Dracula portrayals, but plan to do so this coming October (the month wherein I only allow myself to watch horror films!) I do have some personal favorites in the vampire genre asides Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, including but not limited to:

Once Bitten

The Lost Boys

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the MOVIE, not the show!)

Vampire Hunter D

From Dusk Til Dawn

(yes, i'll admit I used to hate it because I felt that the first half of the film was just much better and the vamps come out of nowhere, but upon later inspection, it's pretty great.)

Vampire Princess Miyu

X-Files: Bad Blood

So why the fascination? It could be that we all want to believe we can escape our own mortality. There's something romantic sounding about living forever. And most vampire stories have been overly-romanticized, with old period clothing and candlelight and coffins and lace and undying love. Either way, like zombie films, they're just good fun.

What are some of your favorite vampire portrayals?